It’s been months now that flash has been making windows crash on my computer. Things had just stabilised and lo and behold they release another update a few days ago and guess what? It’s back to crashing again. What is wrong with these people?

The panels on a mac make it virtually un-usable. I had been looking forward to this version, thinking that surely, they would fix the UI but incredibly, they made it worse! I made a shortcut to reset the workspace and it is by far my most frequent task in CS4; finding the panel I need.

Hi Danilo. Nice site you have there… I just checked out the Typography section and realized I was spending far too much time playing and not enough time working. 😉

Thanks for the tip about the offline help option for Flash but as the tutorial you linked to pointed out, it’s not “equivalent” for 2 rather prominent reasons: “keyword highlighted will not bring you directly to its respective entry” and “help files do not include the Components Language Reference for AS2”. Adobe should adopt an “If it ain’t broke, don’t break it” philosophy.

Flash’s IDE is why I hate developing for Flash. Writing everything in Actionscript is fine, but its terrible navigating through the library, entering/exiting movieclips, navigating layers and timelines, managing tons of floating panels, and now in CS4 dealing with cumbersome sliders similar to AE that IMO don’t enhance the user experience at all.

Flash seems to try to do too much, which is why I try to keep all actionscript on the top level and my movieclips in the library to call them only when I need them. More and more though I am finding myself turning to jQuery and non-Flash based solutions for modules/elements I used to rely on Flash for.